I’ve gotten lazy when it comes to recording information about film rolls. This, combined with my infatuation with notebooks, led me to PhotoMemo Photographer’s Memo Book at Shoot Film Co. After reading this review at 35mmc I’ve ordered a couple of the notebooks to try. Maybe I’ll get better at logging things or maybe I’ll just end up with a few more unused notebooks. Either way, I’m happy to support the effort.

Eve: Eve is a programming language and IDE based on years of research into building a human-first programming platform. From code embedded in documents to a language without order, it presents an alternative take on what programming could be - one that focuses on us instead of the machine A new programming language designed around the concept of “Literate Programming”. Looks fascinating!

A few weeks ago Dropbox notified me that I could have a “Team” Dropbox account in addition to my normal account. This seemed worth checking into, so I went ahead and linked my “Personal” and Team (“Fusionary”) accounts. What I ended up with was a mess. The original ~/Dropbox folder was replaced by “~/Dropbox (Personal)” and a symlink was created at the original location. There was a new folder, “~/Dropbox (Fusionary)” which was linked to the Team account.

I’ve been doing my best to stay calm during the past few months of this insane election season. My Twitter feed is mostly filled with sensible people like me who believe Trump is nothing short of a threat to our existence. This is nice, but even the folks who agree with me are becoming harsh and angry and shallow. It’s exhausting. I’m going to bail on Twitter and other social media outlets until this is over.

You may have noticed that for the past 24 hours this site reverted to the old Wordpress installation. That’s because it did revert to the old Wordpress installation. Looking at all of the necessary supporting infrastructure needed for Wordpress reminded me why I prefer a static site. I came to my senses and switched it back to Hugo and Netlify. That may have been the fastest waffling I’ve done yet.

Andy Baio Here, I control my words. Nobody can shut this site down, run annoying ads on it, or sell it to a phone company. Nobody can tell me what I can or can’t say, and I have complete control over the way it’s displayed. Nobody except me can change the URL structure, breaking 14 years of links to content on the web.o I love seeing this. I wish it were, and hope it becomes, part of a larger trend.

A friend of mine asked me to do a last-minute photo shoot for her son’s senior portrait. The only digital portrait-making camera I have is the 14-year-old Canon 1Ds. I still like the images it makes. Below is my favorite shot of the day. I doubt mom will choose it. Chandler (2016). Canon 1Ds. Canon 24-105L.

I found a web export of my old Delicious Library and it reminded me how fun it had been to see all my books in a beautiful and playful format. Delicious Library is a great app, but I’d stopped using it at some point for reasons I don’t remember. I put the old exported web site out in a Google Cloud bucket for safe-keeping here: http://dellibrary.baty.net/ I thought it would be fun to see what had changed with Delicious Library since I last used it, so I downloaded the latest version.

I don’t think the new Touch Bar is going to help me.

I’ve really come to like Google Photos1. I’ve been syncing my entire photos folder and it’s seamless. The problem I’m finding with publishing my entire ~/Photos folder is that photos are copied to Google before I’ve finished editing them. Even then, the Lightroom edits aren’t included. This means the published photos don’t include my carefully-applied cropping, color corrections, etc. I’m also finding that I don’t need every photo published to Google Photos.

Selfie (2016). Olympus Stylus Epic. Tri-X. Using up the last of the roll in the little Epic.

I’m reconsidering my attachment to “owning” digital copies of music. Thinking now that music is only necessary in Vinyl form. Anything not worth the price or not available on vinyl can just be streamed.